3.1 Words in Context

Step 1: What is happening in this part of the story? What happens right before and after the word? What details do you think go along with this word?

Step 2: How is the word being used? What part of speech is it? (e.g., noun [person, place, or thing]; verb [an action]; adjective [it’s describing something])

Step 3: Read the words around the unknown word to think about what it might mean. What word could go in its place?

Step 4: Reread the sentence and ask yourself whether this makes sense.